NASA's James Webb Space Telescope recently turned its watchful eye toward asteroid 2024 YR4, which we now know poses no ...

The discovery of salty mineral evaporites on Ryugu indicates that watery environments may have been widespread in the early ...

The space rock is expected to zoom past our planet at a zippy 28,655 miles per hour, according to the space agency.

Remember the potential "city killer" asteroid we were all freaking out about, 2024 YR4? Initially predicted with a small but ...

Asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth in December 2032, but that doesn’t mean we’re out of the woods forever. Researchers warn ...

Where do meteorites of different type come from? In a review paper, astronomers trace the impact orbit of observed meteorite falls to several previously unidentified source regions in the asteroid ...

Scientists traced origins of 75 meteorites back to specific regions in the asteroid belt, revealing new insights into their ...

Meteorites are rocks from space that survive their fiery descent through Earth's atmosphere and reach the ground. More than ...

For the first time, scientists are creating a geologic map of the asteroid belt—the region between Mars and Jupiter filled ...

Asteroids’ orbits around the sun may put them in collision paths with inner planets. We may have had a near-miss, but ...

A team of astronomers has spent over a decade tracing meteorite impacts on Earth back to their original sources in the ...

"These relics are effectively fossils of the planet formation process, holding vital clues to deciphering the history of our ...